Our resident reviewer has been maintaining a low profile of late. Perhaps, like many music critics his age, he is not interested in learning new tricks. Or maybe he’s not willing to devote his full attention to anything until someone retrieves whatever it is that he insists is behind that chair in the basement.

Ah, but this week our friends Drive-By Truckers released a country-rocking new album. Let’s see if that offers reason enough for Snorri to perk those ears up and sniff some new sounds, shall we?Well, it’s a start.